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What is a Wicked Problem?
Wicked problems are complex, persistent, interdisciplinary issues in public policy which lack a single clear solution. Each cohort in the North Texas NOW! dual credit program at UNT at Frisco focuses on a different wicked problem each semester.
Learn more about wicked problems.
Copper, K. (n.d.). “Wicked” Problems: What Are They, and Why Are They of Interest to NNSI Researchers? Network for Nonprofit and Social Impact. https://nnsi.northwestern.edu/wicked-problems-what-are-they-and-why-are-they-of-interest-to-nnsi-researchers/
Literacy
The Wicked Problem for Year 1 is literacy.
Check out the following literacy resources below:
Print Books
Print books are featured in the Wicked Problems Book Display at Frisco Landing Library.
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Visual Literacy: Reading, Thinking, and Communicating with Visuals
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Visual Literacy examines how teachers can use visuals to improve learning for all students. It provides teachers with a foundation in visual literacy, defined as the ability to read, think, and communicate with visually presented information. Results of studies of students' using visual information indicate that most students are clearly lacking in the tools needed to use visuals effectively. The book orients teachers to visual literacy and the world of visuals. It discusses various classroom tested strategies and activities for all students, including second language learners, and students with special needs. Stressing visual literacy skills helps students understand a visual more deeply so they can master the content they are learning. Teachers will learn to employ a literacy triad of reading, thinking, and communicating to aid students in their study of visuals. First, they inquire into the visual, reading it for content and context, including assessing the authenticity of the document. Second, they think about the document by analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating it to come up with answers to their inquiry. Graphic organizers help students decipher the content and understand the meaning of the visual document, connecting it to prior and future instruction. Third, they communicate their findings using visuals.
Call Number: LB1068 .N49 2019ISBN: 9781475840117Publication Date: 2019-10-25 -
Decolonizing Literacy: Mexican Lives in the Era of Global Capitalism
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Millions of descendants of the former colonized and enslaved peoples around the world are now classified as poor readers, bad writers, and slow learners. Are they illiterate or silenced people? Are they global citizens or global outcasts? Drawing from case studies of flesh and blood individuals in Mexico and the U.S., this book questions the colonizing images of the "illiterate", and explores the ways in which the long social history of conquest and colonization, plunder and globalization, is inscribed in the personal histories of today's subjugated people. It argues that rather than "limited literacy skills" they face systematic lack of freedom to speak, act, and make decisions about their own lives. Literacy, thus, is understood as a key practice of voice and citizenship.
Call Number: LC155.M5 H47 2010ISBN: 9781847692634Publication Date: 2010-04-20 -
MLA Guide to Digital Literacy
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Updated edition providing students with hands-on strategies for digital literacy. The second edition of this best-selling classroom guide helps students understand why digital literacy is a crucial skill for their education, future careers, and participation in democracy. Offering practical guidance for assessing information online, this guide provides students with the tools to locate reliable sources among the clickbait and viral videos that pervade the web. The guide's hands-on activities, germane readings, and lesson plans give students strategies for reading and analyzing data visualizations; finding and evaluating credible sources; learning how to spot fake news; fact-checking; crafting a research question; effectively conducting searches on Google and on library catalogs and databases; finding peer-reviewed publications; evaluating primary sources; and understanding disinformation and misinformation, filter bubbles, propaganda, and satire in a variety of sources?including websites, social media posts, infographics, videos, and more (on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube). New to the second edition: ? attention to the ethical dimensions of digital technology, including privacy issues and bias in search algorithms?with an accompanying lesson plan ? an emphasis on how digital literacy can help stem racism, sexism, ableism, and the persistence of harmful stereotypes ? instruction on using inclusive research and citation practices to avoid perpetuating systemic bias ? a new chapter, "Composing in Digital Spaces," that offers instruction in multimodal composition and foregrounds accessibility ? a new and up-to-date reading, "The Real History of Fake News" ? a section on avoiding plagiarism ? updated references and examples ? resource lists of digital tools, platforms, and software that can support the practices described in the guide
Call Number: ZA4065 .C37 2022ISBN: 9781603296052Publication Date: 2022-08-09 -
Critical Digital Literacies As Social Praxis: Intersections and Challenges
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This book won the Literacy Research Association's 2014 Edward B. Fry Book Award The contributors to this edited volume examine the simultaneous implementation of critical and digital literacies and explore ramifications for the development and assessment of critical digital literacies (CDL) curricula across educational contexts. We ask: How has the increasing ubiquity of digital literacies in and out of school affected our definitions of critical literacies? And how have our ever-changing perceptions of critical literacies affected how we define, teach, and engage in digital literacies? We believe that there is crucial work to be done at these intersections, work that builds upon the extensive bodies of critical and digital literacies research. Some issues and questions that chapters address are: What is negotiated, gained, or lost in the process of combining the critical and the digital? Where is the power located - and who is silenced, and how - in CDL approaches? Can CDL practices disrupt classroom routines in constructive and engaging ways? How has the divide between audience and participant, and the notion of collective intelligence, been challenged and redefined by CDL? How do CDL practices impact youths' identity constructions? The essays in this volume present a balance between current issues and promising future opportunities and directions.
Call Number: LB1028.3 .C755 2013ISBN: 9781433116940Publication Date: 2012-11-30 -
The Cambridge Handbook of Literacy
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This handbook marks the transformation of the topic of literacy from the narrower concerns with learning to read and write to an interdisciplinary enquiry into the various roles of writing and reading in the full range of social and psychological functions in both modern and developing societies. It does so by exploring the nature and development of writing systems, the relations between speech and writing, the history of the social uses of writing, the evolution of conventions of reading, the social and developmental dimensions of acquiring literate competencies, and, more generally, the conceptual and cognitive dimensions of literacy as a set of social practices. Contributors to the volume are leading scholars drawn from such disciplines as linguistics, literature, history, anthropology, psychology, the neurosciences, cultural psychology, and education.
Call Number: LC149 .C28 2009ISBN: 9780521862202Publication Date: 2009-02-16 -
The Digital Divide
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Contrary to optimistic visions of a free internet for all, the problem of the 'digital divide' - the disparity between those with access to internet technology and those without - has persisted for close to twenty-five years. In this textbook, Jan van Dijk considers the state of digital inequality and what we can do to tackle it. Through an accessible framework based on empirical research, he explores the motivations and challenges of seeking access and the development of requisite digital skills. He addresses key questions such as: Does digital inequality reduce or reinforce existing, traditional inequalities? Does it create new, previously unknown social inequalities? While digital inequality affects all aspects of society and the problem is here to stay, Van Dijk outlines policies we can put in place to mitigate it. The Digital Divide is required reading for students and scholars of media, communication, sociology, and related disciplines, as well as for policymakers.
Call Number: : HM851 .D56 2020ISBN: 9781509534456Publication Date: 2020-01-21 -
Media Literacy for Justice: Lessons for Changing the World
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Foreword by Yohuru Williams, Racial Justice Initiative, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. St. Thomas University, Minneapolis; Preface by Asha Rangappa, former FBI agent and Senior Lecturer, Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs Providing context, reflection points, and ready-to-use lesson plans, this powerful book illuminates the intersections of social justice and media literacy for educators, school and public librarians, teachers of history and civics, information literacy instructors, and community leaders. The corrosive effects of today's relentless tide of media are pernicious. We are conditioned in many ways by our media environments to accept and not question, making it crucial that young people master the skills necessary to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media. De Abreu and her fellow contributors propose that a key solution to our society's crisis of misinformation, misrepresentation, and misunderstanding lies in melding social justice aims with media literacy concepts and skills. Featuring reflective activities and lesson ideas that can be adapted for educational settings from higher education to the K-12 spectrum, community centers, and libraries, this resource spotlights the work of school library media specialists, classroom teachers, academic educators, and representatives of non-profits from around the world; presents ten chapters which explore such timely issues as how to deal with controversial topics in the classroom, the effects of misinformation/disinformation on civics in society, why the media underrepresents certain people in their programming, the digital divide and where libraries fit in, how injustice exacerbates public health issues, and global conceptions of social justice and media literacy examined through various world events; and provides information about additional resources like social action/advocacy organizations, classroom resources, and films that will assist readers as they reflect upon, teach, and discuss media literacy and social justice.
Call Number: LB1590.3 .D4 2022ISBN: 9780838948927Publication Date: 2022-02-07 -
Doing Democracy: Striving for Political Literacy and Social Justice
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In this provocative collection of essays with a distinctly critical and nuanced approach to how democracy is taught, learned, understood, and lived, authors from four continents share their visions on how democracy needs to be cultivated, critiqued, demonstrated, and manifested throughout the educational experience. The collective concern is how we actually do democracy in education. The essays argue that democracy must be infused in everything that happens at school: curriculum, extra-curricular activities, interaction with parents and communities, and through formal organization and structures. One of the book's central questions is: Are educators merely teaching students skills and knowledge to prepare them for the world of work, or is education more about encouraging students to thrive within a pluralistic society? This book reveals that democracy is an ethos, an ideology, a set of values, a philosophy, and a complex and dynamic terrain that is a contested forum for debate. From seasoned veterans to emerging scholars, these writers challenge the idea that there is only one type of democracy, or that democracy is defined by elections. Using a range of theoretical, conceptual, and methodological approaches, each essay makes a compelling case for how education can advance a more critical engagement in democracy that promotes social justice and political literacy for all. Diverse examples illustrate the theme of doing democracy. With its numerous models for teaching and learning to encourage critical thinking and engagement, this book is certain to be an invaluable resource to educators, researchers, students, and anyone with a passion for democratic ideals.
Call Number: LC1091 .D65 2008ISBN: 9780820497457Publication Date: 2008-08-06 -
A Matter of Facts: The Value of Evidence in an Information Age
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"Like Orwell and Bradbury, like Stanley and Siskind, Laura Millar has written a book that people in the future will look back on and say, 'This is one of the books that helped us to survive until a new era.'" -- from the Foreword by Lee McIntyre The safeguarding of authentic facts is essential, especially in this disruptive Orwellian age, where digital technologies have opened the door to a post-truth world in which "alternative facts" can be so easily accepted as valid. And because facts matter, evidence matters. In this urgent manifesto, archives luminary Millar makes the case that authentic and accurate records, archives, data, and other sources of documentary proof are crucial in supporting and fostering a society that is respectful, democratic, and self-aware. An eye-opening treatise for the general public, an invaluable resource for archives students, and a provocative call-to-arms for information and records professionals, Millar's book explains the concept of evidence and discusses the ways in which records, archives, and data are not just useful tools for our daily existence but also essential sources of evidence both today and in the future; includes plentiful examples that illustrate the critical role evidence plays in upholding rights, enforcing responsibilities, tracing family or community stories, and capturing and sharing memories; and examines the impact of digital technologies on how records and information are created and used. With documentary examples ranging from Mesopotamian clay tablets to World War II photographs to today's Twitter messages and Facebook posts, Millar's stirring book will encourage readers to understand more fully the importance of their own records and archives, for themselves and for future generations.
Call Number: ZA3075 .M55 2019ISBN: 9780838917718Publication Date: 2019-07-09 -
Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive LIteracy
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Muhammad's Historically Responsive Literacy Framework is essential for all students, especially youth of colour, who traditionally have been marginalized in learning standards, school policies, and classroom practices. The framework promotes four learning goals-or pursuits: identity development, skill development, intellectual development, criticality. It is a work of considerable strength and raises significant questions for all white practitioners to ask themselves about their unconscious biases. Rachel Clarke, Independent Reading Consultant
Call Number: LC1099.3 .M75 2020ISBN: 1338594893Publication Date: 2020-01-01 -
Good Video Games and Good Learning: Collected Essays on Video Games, Learning and Literacy
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Good Video Games and Good Learning presents the most important essays by James Paul Gee devoted to the ways in which good video games create good learning. The chapters in this book argue that good games teach through well-designed problem-solving experiences. They also prove that game-based learning must involve more than software and technology and engage with the design of passionate-affinity spaces where people mentor each other's learning and engagement. In the end, the book offers a model of collaborative, interactive, and embodied learning centered on problem solving, a model that can be enhanced by games, but which can be accomplished in many different ways with or without games.
Call Number: GV1469.3 .G438 2013ISBN: 9781433123931Publication Date: 2013-10-18 -
Re/Marks on Power: How Annotation Inscribes History, Literacy, and Justice
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An interdisciplinary exploration of annotation that shows how this participatory act marks public memory, struggles for justice, and social change. Annotation-the seemingly simple act of marking a text-is often diminished as a marginal practice. It is prohibited in physical objects and considered irrelevant to social and political concerns. But what if annotation were reimagined as a critical and civic literacy that can inscribe public memory, struggles for justice, and social change? In Re/Marks on Power, education researcher Remi Kalir argues that enduring traces of annotation can be read and (re)written to advance counternarratives and more just social futures. Kalir's interdisciplinary approach examines annotation in archives and libraries, on walls and in books, atop maps and monuments, and along byways and all manner of margins to describe the relevance of "re/marks." With a series of vivid and wide-ranging cases, Kalir describes how groups of annotators make public re/marks of resistance and creativity, often with simple tools and accessible methods. These annotations alter familiar texts, oppose hateful ideology, and broadcast solidarity and social activism. Among the book's fresh reads of annotation are considerations of how Harriet Tubman's legacy is remembered and honored, how the US-Mexico border was defined and is restoried, how problematic public monuments are contested and reimagined, and how books featuring LGBTQIA+ topics are classified, censored, and celebrated. Re/Marks on Power honors the actions of annotators, whether eminent or anonymous, and highlights how material traces have mediated justice-oriented possibility. Throughout this book, the author makes visible a new social language of annotation that can be read across time and texts.
Call Number: Z693.3.A55 K355 2025ISBN: 9780262551038Publication Date: 2025-04-15 -
Literacy Issues During Changing Times: A Call to Action
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This Yearbook begins with the article representing Ellen Jampole's presentation to the CRA membership. In her presidential address, Ellen had the audience alternately laughing, considering, and reminiscing about how she and other academics understand and develop the knowledge they carry. She shares these same themes in her narrative, "Traditions, Storying, and Crossroads" that follows the conference theme and introduces the "Issues in Changing Times" that organizes this edition. The papers comprising this Yearbook that follow Jampole's presidential address are: (1) Getting the Facts Right in Books for Young Readers: Researching "Mailing May" (Michael Tunnel); (2) Teachers of English Learners: Issues of Preparation and Professional Development (MaryEllen Vogt); (3) Teacher Knowledge and Teaching Reading (Mia Callahan, Vicki B. Griffo, and P. David Pearson); (4) Contextualizing Reading Courses Within Political and Policy Realities: A Challenge to Teacher Educators (Jerry Johns); (5) The Lost Art of Teaching Reading (Tim Rasinski); (6) Critical Inquiries in Oral Language Production: Preservice Teachers' Responses to Students' Linguistic Diversity (Donna Glenn Wake); (7) Case Study of a Middle School Student Attending a Separate Reading Class (Amy Alexandra Wilson); (8) Collaboration and Discovery: A Pilot Study of Leveling Criteria for Books Written in Spanish for K-3rd Grade (Mayra Daniels and Verna Rentsch); (9) Teachers' Talk: Teachers' Beliefs About Factors Affecting Their Classrooms (Merry Boggs and Susan Szabo); (10) "Most of the Focus Was on Reading": A Comparison of Elementary Teachers' Preparation in Reading and Writing (Brandi Gribble Mathers, Carolyn Shea, and Sara Steigerwald); (11) Teaching Expository Text Structures: Using Digital Storytelling Techniques to Make Learning Explicit (Donna Glenn Wake); (12) The Strategy Debate: How Teacher Educators and Textbooks May Contribute to Confusing Terminology (Margieren Larmon Whalen); (13) Investigating Alternative-Certification Teacher Candidates' Self-Efficacy and Outcome-Expectancy Beliefs Toward the Teaching of Reading (Agnes Stryker and Susan Szabo); (14) Consensus Building Through the Lens of Q Methodology: Defining Profiles for Effective Models of Professional Development (Kristin Lynn Still and Jaclyn Prizant Gordon); (15) School Reform: An Inside View of Professional Development (Linda E. Martin and Sherry Kragler); (16) Teachers' Perceptions of Effective Professional Development Activities in a Case Study School (Aimee I. Morewood and Rita M. Bean); (17) Free Book Programs from Birth to Five: A Preliminary Look at the Data Regarding Preschool Reading Readiness (Ronald S. Reigner); (18) The Tale of Three States' Reading Tests: Commonalities, Differences, and Implications (Mary F. Roe, Jane Ellen Brady, and Kara Riebold); (19) Guided Reading: It's for Primary Teachers? (Jackie Fergeson and Jenny Wilson); (20) English Language Learning and Reading Comprehension: What We Know and What We Need to Know (Ana Toboada); and (21) The Bookstore Project: How One ELL Teacher Used Project Work to Promote Reading (Jennifer Pool Cheatham and Martha M. Foote). (Individual papers contains tables, figures, and references.)
Call Number: LC149 .L57 2009ISBN: 9781883604141Publication Date: 2009 -
The Battle over Bilingual Ballots: Language Minorities and Political Access Under the Voting Rights Act
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In recent years, few federal requirements have been as controversial as the mandate for what critics call 'bilingual ballots'. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 included a permanent requirement for language assistance for Puerto Rican voters educated in Spanish and ten years later Congress banned English-only elections in certain covered jurisdictions, expanding the support to include Alaska Natives, American Indians, Asian-language voters and Spanish-language voters. Some commentators have condemned the language assistance provisions, underlying many of their attacks with anti-immigrant rhetoric. Although the provisions have been in effect for over three decades, until now no comprehensive study of them has been published. This book describes the evolution of the provisions, examining the evidence of educational and voting discrimination against language minorities covered by the Act. Additional chapters discuss the debate over the 2006 amendments to the Voting Rights Act, analysis of objections raised by opponents of bilingual ballots and some of the most controversial components of these requirements, including their constitutionality, cost and effectiveness. Featuring revealing case studies as well as analysis of key data, this volume makes a persuasive and much-needed case for bilingual ballots, presenting a thorough investigation of this significant and understudied area of election law and American political life.
Call Number: KF4896.L56 T83 2009ISBN: 9780754675723Publication Date: 2009-11-28 -
Developing Scientific Literacy: Using News Media in the Classroom
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""Throughout the book, all the ideas, content, suggestions and arguments are supported by in-depth research and solid referencing, making this an authoritative, yet eminently readable, reference volume for current and would-be secondary science teachers."" School Science Review Science-related news stories have great potential as a resource for teaching and learning about science and its impact on society. By demonstrating the relevance of the subject in everyday life, they can form a valuable bridge between the school classroom and the 'real world'. Worldwide, those advocating science education reform stress the need to promote 'scientific literacy' among young people and typically this includes equipping students to critically engage with science reports in the media. However, very little guidance exists for those who wish to do so. "Developing Scientific Literacy" addresses this gap, offering a much-needed framework for teachers wishing to explore 'science in the media' in secondary schools or colleges. It suggests how teachers across a number of subject areas can collaborate to promote among young people an aptitude and ability to engage thoughtfully with science in the media. Drawing on research and development work, the authors: Describe key characteristics of science news reporting Discuss its potential as a resource for teaching and learning about science and for developing young people's criticality in respect of such reports Identify appropriate instructional objectives and suggest activities through which these might be achieved This timely book is a source of valuable ideas and insights for all secondary science teachers. It will also be of interest to those with responsibilities for initial teacher training and continuing professional development.
Call Number: Q175.5 .J37 2007ISBN: 9780335217960Publication Date: 2007-03-01 -
Sociocultural Positioning in Literacy: Exploring Culture, Discourse, Narrative, & Power in Diverse Educational Contexts
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This book uses positioning theory as a guiding framework to examine teaching and learning in literacy-related contexts. These contexts include a range of literate practices, participants, and settings. Authors examine how teachers respond to multicultural texts, how adults guide children to appropriate academic discourse, how children engage in meaningful talk about texts--or avoid that talk, and how researchers write up and position themselves and their participants. Throughout the book, literacy practices, whether involving children or adults, are viewed as situated, social processes contingent upon cultural contexts and the meaning-making systems used within such contexts.
Call Number: LC191.4 .S67 2011ISBN: 9781572739925Publication Date: 2011-06-30 -
Coding Literacy: How Computer Programming is Changing Writing
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How the theoretical tools of literacy help us understand programming in its historical, social and conceptual contexts. The message from educators, the tech community, and even politicians is clear- everyone should learn to code. To emphasize the universality and importance of computer programming, promoters of coding for everyone often invoke the concept of "literacy," drawing parallels between reading and writing code and reading and writing text. In this book, Annette Vee examines the coding-as-literacy analogy and argues that it can be an apt rhetorical frame. The theoretical tools of literacy help us understand programming beyond a technical level, and in its historical, social, and conceptual contexts. Viewing programming from the perspective of literacy and literacy from the perspective of programming, she argues, shifts our understandings of both. Computer programming becomes part of an array of communication skills important in everyday life, and literacy, augmented by programming, becomes more capacious. Vee examines the ways that programming is linked with literacy in coding literacy campaigns, considering the ideologies that accompany this coupling, and she looks at how both writing and programming encode and distribute information. She explores historical parallels between writing and programming, using the evolution of mass textual literacy to shed light on the trajectory of code from military and government infrastructure to large-scale businesses to personal use. Writing and coding were institutionalized, domesticated, and then established as a basis for literacy. Just as societies demonstrated a "literate mentality" regardless of the literate status of individuals, Vee argues, a "computational mentality" is now emerging even though coding is still a specialized skill.
Call Number: LC149.5 .L44 2017ISBN: 9780262036245Publication Date: 2017-07-28 -
The Patterns of Comics
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Comics are a global phenomenon, and yet it's easy to distinguish the visual styles of comics from Asia, Europe, or the United States. But, do the structures of these visual narratives differ in more subtle ways? Might these comics actually be drawn in different visual languages that vary in their structures across cultures? To address these questions, The Patterns of Comics seeks evidence through a sustained analysis of an annotated corpus of over 36,000 panels from more than 350 comics from Asia, Europe, and the United States. This data-driven approach reveals the cross-cultural variation in symbology, layout, and storytelling between various visual languages, and shows how comics have changed across 80 years. It compares, for example, the subtypes within American comics and Japanese manga, and analyzes the formal properties of Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes across its entire 10-year run. Throughout, it not only uncovers the patterns in and across the panels of comics, but shows how these regularities in the visual languages of comics connect to the organizing principles of all languages.
Call Number: PN6714 .C6324 2024ISBN: 9781350381643Publication Date: 2023-12-28
Ebooks
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Information Literacy: Separating Fact From Fiction
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People today live in a world of information overload. Each day, information is shared from countless sources through numerous devices. Learning how to handle this onslaught of information has become a vital task for everyone. By the time they reach upper elementary school, most students are using smart phones, tablets and computers to access social media, video websites, online forums, wikis, blogs, and interactive digital games. Students need guidance on how to analyze online information sources, critically think about the content, and apply it to their decision-making. This essential professional resource includes everything that teachers need to help students achieve digital literacy, and includes activities and easy-to-use templates to support teachers as they teach the key skills of analyzing and understanding online information. This book by Sara Armstrong and Pamela Brunskill consists of three sections: Finding Information, Analyzing Information, and Using Information. The topics covered include: an introduction to information literacy; search techniques and strategies; asking and answering good questions; thinking visually; organizing information; online civic reasoning; analyzing online sources; using technology to teach; project-based learning with technology. With the amount of online information sources increasing exponentially, this book will equip teachers with the tools they need to help their students become global citizens and 21st century thinkers.
Call Number: ZA3075 .A767 2018ISBN: 9781425817565Publication Date: 2017-09-01 -
Rebel Literacy: Cuba's National Literacy Campaign and Critical Global Citizenship
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Rebel Literacy is a look at Cuba’s National Literacy Campaign of 1961 in historical and global contexts. The Cuban Revolution cannot be understood without a careful study of Cuba’s prior struggles for national sovereignty. Similarly, an understanding of Cuba’s National Literacy Campaign demands an inquiry into the historical currents of popular movements in Cuba to make education a right for all. The scope of this book, though, does not end with 1961 and is not limited to Cuba and its historical relations with Spain, the United States, and the former Soviet Union. Nearly 50 years after the Year of Education in Cuba, the Literacy Campaign’s legacy is evident throughout Latin America and the ‘Third World’. A world-wide movement today continues against neoliberalism and for a more humane and democratic global political economy. It is spreading literacy for critical global citizenship, and Cuba’s National Literacy Campaign is a part of the foundation making this global movement possible.
The author collected about 100 testimonies of participants in the Campaign, and many of their stories and perspectives are highlighted in one of the chapters. Theirs are the stories of perhaps the world’s greatest educational accomplishment of the 20th Century, and critical educators of the 21st Century must not overlook the arduous and fruitful work that ordinary Cubans, many in their youth, contributed toward a nationalism and internationalism of emancipation.
Call Number: LC155.C9 A34 2009ISBN: 9781936117062Publication Date: 2009-12-01 -
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Literacy in the Digital Age
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The fast pace of technology in this day and age has made it difficult for individuals to stay informed without becoming lost in the folds of an information overload. Methods used to narrow down information are becoming just as important as providing the information to be discovered. The Handbook of Research on Multidisciplinary Approaches to Literacy in the Digital Age is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research on the significance of being literate in the age of speed and technology. While highlighting topics such as e-advertising, mobile computing, and visual culture, this publication explores the major issues society has in the information age and the methods of innovative achievements of public or private institutions. This book is ideally designed for researchers, academicians, teachers, and business managers seeking current research on a variety of social sciences in terms of the digital age.
Call Number: ZA3075 .M85 2019ISBN: 9781799815341Publication Date: 2019-11-29 -
My Phone Lies to Me: Fake News Poetry Workshops as Radical Digital Media Literacy Given the Fact of Fake News
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This book of poems about fake news written by diverse project participants is foremost an invitation and invocation for readers to participate, with others, in an experiment in knowing and working differently with the internet: Fake News Poetry Workshops. Between 2018 and 2020, Alexandra Juhasz directed more than twenty of these workshops around the world, and these are ongoing beyond the confines of this book. Each differs in form and structure, but participants are always asked to attend to research, their own knowledge about the internet and social media, and what they can learn from their workshop and previous ones.
My Phone Lies to Me shares the poems created in the workshops. As moving, eloquent, and useful as they may be—and you are invited to indulge in and learn from them—enjoying and learning from the poems is only a small part of this book’s project. Four short essays (two by Juhasz, with a foreword and afterword by critical internet scholars Tara McPherson and Margaret Rhee, respectively) introduce and situate the project’s processes of radical digital media. You can learn what Fake News Poetry Workshops make, do, and believe in, as well as how to collaborate with others to create your own.
Call Number: PS595.F33 M974 2022ISBN: 9781685710699Publication Date: 2022-11-18 -
Speech Is My Hammer: Black Male Literacy Narratives in the Age of Hip-Hop
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With Speech Is My Hammer, Max Hunter draws on memoir and his own biography to call his readers to reimagine the meaning and power in literacy. Defining literacy as a "spectrum of skills, abilities, attainments, and performances," Hunter focuses on dispelling "literacy myths" and discussing how Black male artists, entertainers, professors, and writers have described their own "literacy narratives" in self-conscious, ambivalent terms. Beginning with Frederick Douglass's My Bondage My Freedom, W. E. B. Dubois's Soul of Black Folks, and Langston Hughes's Harlem Renaissance-memoir The Big Sea, Hunter conducts a literary inquiry that unearths their double-consciousness and literacy ambivalence. He moves on to reveal that for many contemporary Black men the arc of ambivalence rises even higher and becomes more complex, following the civil rights and the Black Power movements, and then sweeping sharply upward once again during the War on Drugs. Hunter provides rich illustrations and probing theses that complicate our commonsense reflections on their concealed angst regarding Black authenticity, respectability politics, and masculinity. Speech Is My Hammer moves the reader beyond considering literacy in normative terms to perceive its potential to facilitate transformative conversations among Black males.
ISBN: 9781666703092Publication Date: 2022-09-30 -
Paradigm Lost: Learning and Literacy in the Digital Divide by "From Google to ChatGPT, technology threatens to sweep students into dependency and weakness in thinking and communicating. Prof. Vicki J. Sapp's book helps educators, students, parents and the public to see the dangers and recognize possible remedies, in the effort to keep education human centered and strengthen it as the preserver of individual and cultural literacy-and freedom"-- [Provided by publisher]
Call Number: LB1028.3 .S296 2024ISBN: 9781628945454Publication Date: 2025-05-01 -
Constitutional Literacy: A Twenty-First Century Imperative
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This book considers the status of constitutional literacy in the United States along with ways to assess and improve it. The author argues that pervasive constitutional illiteracy is a problem for both law enforcement agencies and for ordinary citizens. Based on the author's decades of teaching in law enforcement agencies around the country, this book argues for the moral and pragmatic value of constitutional literacy and its application in twenty-first century society.
Call Number: KF4550 .D74 2016ISBN: 9781137567994Publication Date: 2016-09-19 -
Health Literacy: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice
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The development of better processes to relay medical information has enhanced the healthcare field. By implementing effective collaborative strategies, this ensures proper quality and instruction for both the patient and medical practitioners. Health Literacy: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice examines the latest advances in providing and helping patients and medical professionals to understand basic health information and the services that are most appropriate. Including innovative studies on interactive health information, health communication, and health education, this multi-volume book is an ideal source for professionals, researchers, academics, practitioners, and students interested in the improvement of health literacy.
Call Number: RA418 .H43 2017ISBN: 9781522519287Publication Date: 2017-04-17 -
Everyday Media Literacy: An Analog Book for Your Digital Life
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In this graphic guide to media literacy, award-winning educator Sue Ellen Christian offers students an accessible, informed and lively look at how they can consume and create media intentionally and critically. The straight-talking textbook offers timely examples and relevant activities to equip students with the skills and knowledge they need to assess all media, including news and information. Through discussion prompts, writing exercises, key terms, online links and even origami, readers are provided with a framework from which to critically consume and create media in their everyday lives. Chapters examine news literacy, online activism, digital inequality, privacy, social media and identity, global media corporations and beyond, giving readers a nuanced understanding of the key concepts and concerns at the core of media literacy. Concise, creative and curated, this book highlights the cultural, political and economic dynamics of media in our contemporary society, and how consumers can mindfully navigate their daily media use. Everyday Media Literacy is perfect for students (and educators) of media literacy, journalism, education and media effects looking to build their understanding in an engaging way. Instructor slides and quizzes (with answers in bold) for this book are available through the Routledge Instructor Hub.
Call Number: P96.M4 C475 2019ISBN: 9781351175494Publication Date: 2019-09-20 -
Literacy Is Liberation: Working Toward Justice Through Culturally Relevant Teaching
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Literacy is the foundation for all learning and must be accessible to all students. This fundamental truth is where Kimberly Parker begins to explore how culturally relevant teaching can help students work toward justice. Her goal is to make the literacy classroom a place where students can safely talk about key issues, move to dismantle inequities, and collaborate with one another. Introducing diverse texts is an essential part of the journey, but teachers must also be equipped with culturally relevant pedagogy to improve literacy instruction for all. In Literacy Is Liberation, Parker gives teachers the tools to build culturally relevant intentional literacy communities (CRILCs) with students. Through CRILCs, teachers can better shape their literacy instruction by * Reflecting on the connections between behaviors, beliefs, and racial identity. * Identifying the characteristics of culturally relevant literacy instruction and grounding their practice within a strengths-based framework. * Curating a culturally inclusive library of core texts, choice reading, and personal reading, and teaching inclusive texts with confidence. * Developing strategies to respond to roadblocks for students, administrators, and teachers. * Building curriculum that can foster critical conversations between students about difficult subjects--including race. In a culturally relevant classroom, it is important for students and teachers to get to know one another, be vulnerable, heal, and do the hard work to help everyone become a literacy high achiever. Through the practices in this book, teachers can create the more inclusive, representative, and equitable classroom environment that all students deserve.
Call Number: LC1099.515.C85 P37 2022ISBN: 9781416630906Publication Date: 2022-02-25 -
Literacy Behind Bars: Successful Reading and Writing Strategies for Use with Incarcerated Youth and Adults
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Literacy behind Bars: Successful Reading and Writing Strategies for Use with Incarcerated Youth and Adults is a practical resource for teachers, librarians, administrators, and community stakeholders who work with incarcerated youth and adults. The book includes examples of authentic literacy practices that have been successfully used with those incarcerated around the nation. These include: creating graphic novels,book clubs,writing about gang life,reading buddies,urban literaturedeveloping a writing workshopestablishing a school library
Call Number: HV8883.3.U5 .L56 2017ISBN: 9781442269255Publication Date: 2017-01-18 -
The Data Literacy Cookbook
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Today’s students create and are confronted with many kinds of data in multiple formats. Data literacy enables students and researchers to access, interpret, critically assess, manage, handle, and ethically use data.
The Data Literacy Cookbook includes a variety of approaches to and lesson plans for teaching data literacy, from simple activities to self-paced learning modules to for-credit and discipline-specific courses. Sixty-five recipes are organized into nine sections based on learning outcomes:
Interpreting Polls and Surveys
Finding and Evaluating Data
Data Manipulation and Transformation
Data Visualization
Data Management and Sharing
Geospatial Data
Data in the Disciplines
Data Literacy Outreach and Engagement
Data Literacy Programs and Curricula
Many sections have overlapping learning outcomes, so you can combine recipes from multiple sections to whip up a scaffolded curriculum. The Data Literacy Cookbook provides librarians with lesson plans, strategies, and activities to help guide students as both consumers and producers in the data life cycle.
Call Number: ZA3088.5.C65 D38 2022ISBN: 0838939260Publication Date: 2022
